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Chancellor's Fellowships: closing dates 16 Jan, 29 Feb, 16 Apr 2012
The University of Edinburgh is appointing up to 100 Chancellor's Fellowships across the University's 22 Schools as an investment in the future of teaching and research.
These prestigious awards are aimed at early career individuals of the highest potential who have begun to establish a reputation for the highest quality research at the forefront of their discipline and who have a commitment to learning and teaching at university level. The University has been able to make this investment because of its highly successful research, teaching and commercialisation performance.
The annoucement of the fellowships co-incided with election of Princess Anne as Chancellor of the University and she agreed to have them named in her honour.
The IGMM hopes to attract a number of Chancellor's Fellowships.
The first closing date for applications is 16 January and details of how to apply can be found here...
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New Studentship Opportunities
The Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine (IGMM) forms part of the University of Edinburgh and is a large, integrated research institute composed of the Molecular Medicine Centre, the MRC Human Genetics Unit, and the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre. The IGMM’s priorities are basic biomedical research through to clinical 
research across a wide range of themes. Programmes of work include the following list of themes: genetics of common and complex human diseases, epigenetics, developmental biology and pediatrics, brain biology and disease, cancer biology and biomedical systems analysis. There are currently around 75 PhD students in training across the IGMM.
The successful applicant will be joining an innovative and exciting 4 year PhD program within the IGMM Graduate School, which incorporates an initial period that includes both academic and practical training in a wide-range of research methodology. Short research projects in a variety of labs (in the first 6 months) will help students make informedchoices for PhD projects.
Students will then choose their main PhD project and have 3.5 years to complete their PhD research.
Up to thirteen studentships are available of which six will be based in the MRC HGU and seven in the wider IGMM with different subject streams (one dedicated to cancer research, for example). These will be available in September 2012. We expect that successful candidates will have an excellent academic record and a broad interest in the research themes of the IGMM.
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STARLAB Scientific Image Prize for unit: November 2011
Congratulations to Dr Anna Klingseisen, who's image was chosen for the 2012 Calendar Competition run by the lab equipment supplier STARLAB UK.
The image was entered by the unit's Design and Publication Manager, Craig Nicol on behalf of Anna, Career Development Fellow, Medical & Developmental Genetics within Dr Andrew Jackson's lab.
The competition rules stated that images could be of anything, but should be predominantly blue and yellow in colour to stand the best chance of winning. The image titled 'zebrafish embryo, 9 hours post fertilisation at 90% epiboly. Embryonic cell layers spread out from the animal pole to engulf the yolk. Cell membranes of the enveloping layer are stained for beta-Actin (green) and all nuclei with DAPI (blue)'.
This successful photo will feature in the printed 2012 STARLAB UK Calendar alongside the other winning entries.
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